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Drug Discovery: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Spurred by Same Enzyme

(July 7, 2017) - Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic and environmental risk factors. But at the biochemical level, these two neurodegenerative diseases start to look similar. That's how Emory scientists led by Keqiang Ye, PhD, landed on a potential drug target for Parkinson's. Read more…